When Alex and I brought Ben home from the hospital we decided that our first week would be spent figuring out how to be Ben’s parents. We knew it {and every day hereinafter} would be a period of trial and error and simply getting to know Ben and his needs, and that’s exactly what it …
Author Archives: Alison Allen
Life at Home
We’re still in our first week of being home with Ben and I’m pretty sure we couldn’t be happier. It is an incredible feeling to actually, finally be at home with our baby. We have been enjoying seeing, holding, feeding and hanging out with our baby whenever we want to, without supervision from a nurse and …
A Family of Three
Now that Ben is home with us it feels much more like we are a family. Life is so much calmer, we’re so much happier and everything feels normal and natural. We are so overwhelmingly happy to be home! On Sunday morning we found out that Ben was getting discharged, and by some miracle, our …
Home.
Benjamin came home today! All is well and we couldn’t be happier. I’ll post more about his homecoming and discharge once we get settled.
NICU Life
I’ve shared a lot about how Ben has been doing and in turn it gives a little bit of background to our NICU experience, but I really haven’t talked much about what it’s like to have a baby in the NICU. Ben has spent 20 days in the NICU so far, and some of them have …
Ben is Two Weeks Old!
Time is flying by {thankfully!} and our little boy is two weeks old! We have had so much fun getting to know Ben and seeing his personality start to show – he’s such a character already. We can’t wait to continue watching him grow up. One of my favorite things about Ben is how expressive …
Time & A Disclaimer
I’ve been meaning to write this post for nearly two weeks now, which is a perfect segue into saying that holy cow there is not enough time in a day right now! For Alex, he’s juggling managing Jackson, going to work full-time and coming home, eating dinner and then going to the hospital to see …
Ben’s Nursery
Ben’s nursery is all ready for him to come home to! We just love how well everything came together in his room. The theme we were after for his nursery was a modern mountain theme, which sort of comes across, but mostly it’s a calming mix of grays, blues and whites with a few mountain …
Ben is One Week Old!
…Ok so he’s a week and two days old now – I can’t keep up with the posts! Ben is doing amazingly well and has had a really, really good week of growing, eating and sleeping – his three primary goals in life right now. Here’s the latest on Ben now that he’s in his …
Technical Difficulties
We’ve been having a few technical difficulties with the blog the last week or so. I think we’ve fixed everything so hopefully the email notifications are going out correctly, and only once now! Sorry if you’ve either missed email notifications or if you got a bunch of notifications for one post. Everything should be in working …